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McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 [OLD VERSION] | ![McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51stffoQA5L._SL160_.jpg)
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Category: Software
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $6.35
You Save: $33.64 (84%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 1611
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Xp
Color: 1-user
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: VSF08EMB1RUA
Model: VSF08EMB1RUA
UPC: 731944568324
EAN: 0731944568324
Release Date: August 27, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 3-in-1 PC protection from viruses, hackers, and spyware | | • | Integrated anti-virus, firewall, and anti-spyware technologies | | • | Essential protection for surfing the Web and downloading files safely | | • | Simplifies security with the new and improved McAfee SecurityCenter | | • | Blocks and removes threats automatically; shields PC around the clock |
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Product Description
You love cruising and using the Internet. There are hackers out there ready to pounce on you and your computer - causing in all sorts of harm. McAfee 3-in-1 VirusScan Plus AntiVirus Firewall AntiSpyware PC Protection 2008 software is necessary to safeguard your PC from viruses, hackers, and other culprits that want to harm it and you. It offers 1-Year of protection, constantly updated, to keep your system's protection current. So cruise and use the web in comfort. Be assured that you're protected by a leader in PC and Internet security. Stops Viruses - Automatically blocks, cleans, and removes viruses so you can surf the Web safely and download files Blocks Spyware - Blocks spyware before it installs on your computer and removes existing spyware so you can surf the Web safely Stops Hackers. Protects and conceals your computer from hackers Always On and working in the background providing updates for 1 year after installation to your PC. 24/7 virus and threat protection from McAfee AVERT Labs continuously monitors worldwide virus activities and provides immediate, anti-virus protection and removal solutions Daily updates are installed automatically. When a new version of McAfee is available, you get it automatically at no charge during your subscription, ensuring that you always have up-to-date protection - for up to 1-Year (renewable) McAfee SystemGuards watches your computer for specific behaviors that may signal virus, spyware, or hacker activity SiteAdvisor adds safety ratings to sites and search engine results based on comprehensive spam, adware, and online scam safety tests Stealth mode can hide your presence on the Internet, making your computer invisible to hackers McAfee SecurityCenter makes it simple to review your computer's security status, check for updates, and fix potential security issues
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| Customer Reviews: Read 68 more reviews...
 I Can't Puttz Around. This is It. I Have Finally Found My AntiVirus Dream Program July 3, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Look, I could write a review that tries to coddle those who are having a problem with this McAfee Virus Scan program, but for me, it is like finally arriving after a sea of disappointments. (I am talking about McAfee VirusScan Plus 2008-3 User Newest Version) Make sure you remove all other antivirus programs, and firewalls first before loading this McAfee Virus application. I have never seen an antivirus program that works properly with a 2nd antivirus program loaded at the same time.
It includes a Security Center, Virus Scan, Personal Firewall, Easy Network, and Site Advisor.
First of all forgive me for writing such a long review, but there is a lot of ground to cover. For those who like the short version, with less information here it is: Norton slowed my DSL connection down by a third. I spent a day with Verizon, couldn't figure out why all of my other machines in the network were getting 756k, and this one got only 4 or 500 tops. Then I removed Norton, and bingo, instant 756k. AVG free edition is nice but takes a lot of boot up time while it updates upon every single boot up, unless you disable that feature, then it sends out your Outlook email with a message that your antivirus is out of date, and this email could be dangerous, or something like that. Zone Alarm used to be the best, now they are nearing the worst. My Windows 2000 machine went blue screen after an update, took me 2 days to figure out that was the problem, so I removed it after discovering the problem in a forum, and it solved it. Also ZA after recommending it to my friend, would not work at all in a Windows XP Media Center machine. Ask ZA and they say they no longer support it in Media Center. 50 bucks down the drain. Now it takes my XP regular edition SP2 well over 5 minutes to boot with Zone Alarm Security Suite, and I mean WELL over 5 minutes; it's ridiculous. I removed it to load this McAfee Virus Scan (MVS), and the machine immediately booted in only 2 minutes and 15 seconds to the point I was able to bring a Google page up. So I loaded this MVS and the machine booted in only 2 minutes and 45 seconds, once again to a Google page appearing. In both cases I clicked on a Google desktop icon as soon as it appeared, and then waited for the results. It clicks, goes dark blue, and waits for everything else to load, including MVS before it will allow a page to appear. So MVS took only 30 additional seconds to load, and according to Scotty the watchdog in WinPatrol, it loads about 7 .exe files. So that is fast. Now that is with a machine that is loaded up with a ton of programs.
I first loaded MVS in my home office machine, in the same network, with the same configuration, Asus A8N SLI, AMD 64 3200+, 1Gb ram. The home office machine with MVS loaded, gave me the same results but in approximately one minute before I could get a Google page up. (This is an edit, I actually timed the boot up, and not counting the time to type in my password, it booted in exactly 42 seconds) Boot up to Google in only a minute with MVS, and in 2 minutes and 45 seconds in my overloaded machine that used to take well over 5 minutes with Zone Alarm. I'm sold.
While performing a scan it did not affect the performance of the machine, either in surfing the web, or opening programs, even the intensive programs like Dreamweaver MX 2004, or Photoshop CS2.
When loading do as the quick start guide says, put in the CD, then choose the option of loading from the web. It's a 45 Meg download, but it's the latest.
Manage network feature, it recognized all of the other machines, and components with an IP address in my network. It recognized my Windows Server 2003 R2 Edition, but gave me a status message of a request to upgrade to an operating system of at least W2000 or later. I guess that is because of W2003 security, blocking scans.
Before I even acquired MVS I did not understand exactly what they meant by the 3 user allowance, and couldn't find anything on it, so I want to share that with you. Did they mean that you could load it on one machine sharing a network, and then scan individual drives across the network, the same way early ZA did, or does this mean you can put it in more than one machine for full protection at all times. Fortunately it means the latter. I loaded it in the home office machine, registering it in my name to be able to get virus updates, and created a user name and password. Then I went into the other machine, dropped in the CD, did a complete install, but when the registration page came up, I logged in instead, and it instantly completed the registration for me, reminding me of my user name and password, and congratulating me on the installation. So it is a 3 machine complete install, that is cool, or should I say way cool.
I know this isn't about MVS but I advise you to get a free copy of CCleaner from the web. (Google it.) It cleans all the junk out of your computer and you can run it quickly before entering sensitive password sites for example. It cleans out your cache, cookies, etc. in only a few seconds. When you run it for the first time, it will take several minutes to remove it all, for example a ton of web pages you have been surfing, that your machine checks first, before drawing it from the distant server. A slooooow way for your machine to have to work.
McAfee has been around for a zillion years, they have been a leader, and from the performance of this product so far, they have totally aced it. You can see all of the other antivirus and firewall programs I have tried, and this one according to boot up time, and scan speed is the best. It scanned my office machine quickly, although I did not time it accurately. It scanned several gigs of data in what seemed like 10 minutes. My other machine with 230 Gigs of data takes about 5 hours with Zone Alarm, because I am using their older 7.0 version, it took 3 times that long with their newer version that works with Vista and XP. I am using it on an XP machine. Once again, had to get rid of the update, and go back to an earlier version.
Look I can't speak for everyone, or everyone's machine, but all I know is I am totally impressed with this McAfee product, and hope and pray they don't go down the tubes like Norton, and Zone Alarm did. (I have not used any recent Norton products, but Norton was the best when Peter Norton was there solving the DOS problems, almost like a miracle man, then from about 10 years ago, everything of theirs I tried was junk.) Sorry for the pointed remarks, but sometimes you find a product, after spending years in frustration, or at least you find something that works, then it goes bad, and finally, finally, something that really works great like this MVS. For me, my hat is off to McAfee. 150 Stars and counting. Highly recommended to say the least.
PS: I noticed another reviewer was having problems logging onto online acounts, so I put it to the test, logged into my bank account, which is a 3 step process, and also my online server, and did not have any problems. If I have any, or notice anything after using this product more, I will come back and edit the review. All of the essentials place this one at the top for now.
McAfee in one word "Outstanding" February 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have used other products in the past to try something else besides McAfee, but nothing even comes close to the best protection, for the best price. This program has an easy to use interface, it doesn't use as much resources as other programs, and it's firewall, virus, and network protection with alerts, keeps me informed if the constant changes to my computer. The Site Advisor lets me know if I am on a true site or fake site used for phishing. I would highly suggest that you get this product.
Comprehensive protection, little or no user performance impact July 6, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Here is a note before I start off on the detailed review: I noticed another review which complained about his computer being very slow after installing McAfee antivirus - even I did noticed the slowness but that was only on the second day, maybe McAfee is trying to do some additional scanning or something like that, after 1 or 2 days, the system will be normal
Antivirus software market is very mature - both the market leaders in Antivirus - McAfee and Norton/Symantec offer equally good virus updates and protection.
But there are a few factors which make McAfee stand out:
* Cost - McAfee 3 user license costs $42 compared to $85 for Symantec(atleast as of this this day)
* Comprehensive protection - McAfee protects against Spamware and Viruses
* On access scan - This is something which you will hate as well as equally like : The Antivirus will always keep running in the background and scan each and every website you visit, each and every program you run. This will slow down things a little bit, but the protection is comprehensive.
I have noticed that McShield much faster than Symantic in On-Access scanning
* Easy to share : A 3-user license is very easy to share, you get to create an online account with McAfee with which you can download the latest version of antivirus on any computer and install it
It works! February 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My experience with VirusScan Plus has been good so far. I had a little trouble installing it and had to contact online customer support, but the wait time was minimal (less than 9 minutes) and they were able to send me a link to uninstall McAfee and reinstall it. Now it's working like a charm. I tried CA and Norton and so far this one seems to work the best.
Better than Norton 360, Hands Down July 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Still I did experience a bit of a slowdown, but nothing like with 360. I'm running Vista and I think that's part of it. I'm considering a downgrade. Actually, I'm going to. XP, worked great for me. Vista iCandy, no good, at least not for me.
That being said, this programs seems to do everything it's supposed to do. I've been using it for over a month now and have experienced no problems. It stays in the background and does what it's supposed to do without getting in the way and that's about the highest praise a program like this can get.
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